南岛民族与岛屿东南亚社会的比较研究--人类学学者访谈录之七十四

A Comparative Study on Austronesian People and Societies of Islands of Southeast Asia——An Interview with an Anthropologist JIANG Bin

回顾了蒋斌近四十年来人类学学习和研究经历。他对人类学的理论研究和田野调查同样重视,认为人类学的理论关怀更广,具有比较研究的视野,而民族志调查则从不同文化所赋予的意义去理解多元的社会形态。他的硕士论文用曼彻斯特学派的冲突理论分析排湾族的贵族制度,并对当时的人类学田野方法做了反思;博士论文用列维-斯特劳斯"家屋社会"理论去解释排湾族的阶级社会。从台湾原住民的排湾族到东南亚沙捞越地区,他的足迹遍及岛屿东南亚社会,在他看来,研究东南亚能促进人们更加了解东西方文明在岛屿上发生的社会融合与文化交流的历史过程。

A review on Jiang Bin＇s studying and researching experience in the field of anthropology in the past forty years shows that he gives equal emphasis to theoretical research and fieldwork of anthropology.According to Jiang,with a wider scope of solicitude,theories of anthropology possess the perspective of comparative study,while ethnography research bases its understanding of diversified social formations on the significance attributed by different cultures.His master＇s thesis analyzes aristocracy system of Paiwan people by adopting the conflict theory of Manchester School and reflects on methods of anthropological fieldwork at that time;and his doctoral dissertation explains the social hierarchy of Paiwan with the theory of house-based society by Levi-Strauss.Jiang Bin＇s fieldwork covers the societies of all the Islands of Southeast Asia from Paiwan people,one of the indigenous communities in Taiwan,to Sarawak areas in Malaysia.Jiang believes that studying Southeast Asia can promote a better understanding on the history of social integration and cultural exchange of the civilization between the east and the west occurred in the islands of Southeast Asia.